[procps] Re: merging

  • From: Craig Small <csmall-procps@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 22:42:42 +1000

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:29:35AM +0200, Sami Kerola wrote:
> It would be great to see procps-ng + psmisc + util-linux all in same
> source tree. But that is not my call. Craig, please consider letting
> Karel becoming maintainer for them all. I am sure you have enough to
> do without being upstream for these utilities. And I am absolutely
> sure your contributions will be credited in decent and permanent
> manner, assuming merge to util-linux would happen.
I'm not that keen on the idea really. It means loss of control and we've
had problems with this before, hence the split out in the past.

I don't understand the infrastructure benefit, its not like sourceforge
or github are groaning under the weight of the projects.

 - Craig
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